What Grinds your Gears?

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It's get lost in the chatter. I'll still read the thread to make my own life seem better by seeing everybody's problems. :sly:
 
Be patient my friend. ;)

What annoys me is the 6 million threads in the GT5 forum about the new update. I know the update is happening, so does everyone, but apparently there is still a need for everyone to run around lie headless chickens all excited about getting 1 free car. :rolleyes:

Don't worry, as soon as the update hits, it'll die down for an hour or 2. And then turn to moaning about how it's not very good for some reason...
 
ryanb98
Don't worry, as soon as the update hits, it'll die down for an hour or 2. And then turn to moaning about how it's not very good for some reason...

I'm updating mine now. Hopefully it will be good enough to drag me away from F1 2010, which I've been playing recently.
 
I'm back.

2.02 is going to take 2000+ minutes apparently. :grumpy:c

Mine took about 5 minutes. Personally it's not that good and now if you don't have the track DLC you cannot drive on those tracks online. :mad: That's killed GT5 for me. Time to buy F1 2011 me thinks.
 
Mine took about 5 minutes. Personally it's not that good and now if you don't have the track DLC you cannot drive on those tracks online. :mad: That's killed GT5 for me. Time to buy F1 2011 me thinks.
Haven't tried mine yet but due to my poor internet connection, it will probably take a while, at least I have GTP to keep me occupied. I also think it is time to buy the DLC as I can't now drive Spa or Kart Space.
 
Not looking forward to downloading this update, any kind of downloadable software on my PS3 takes forever. It look 4 days to download GTA TLAD.
 
^ Are you two doing this over wi-fi? Because having a wired connection makes things a lot quicker.
 
^ Are you two doing this over wi-fi? Because having a wired connection makes things a lot quicker.
No, mines wired and is not taking as long as expected as it is 50% in within the first 2 minutes and says I have another 4 minutes to go.
EDIT: two more posts to go 'till the big 1000
 
Gear grinder? No one is posting anything gear grinding. What happened to the quality posts? Paragraphs and such? Pretty much what shem had said once, these one line gear grinders are pretty... annoying.

This X 100,000,000

I'm glad someone else has noticed....

My Gear Grinder this afternoon is having to stop work early due to my mum injuring herself walking the dogs, she is currently down the doctors waiting for her ankle to be looked at :grumpy:
 
CARCRASH
I think you keep forgetting, that you haven't got me premium yet as it won't let me access that. :lol:

oops! :dunce: I forgot that was in the premium forum. I'll quote him.
Edit: Here you go.
Cable?
This is how my update arrives. They carry around 4kb per delivery.

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CARCRASH
Haha, love it Shem, if you're reading this, unlucky. :lol:
EDIT 1000th post!!!!!
Yeah. The replies were good, but I can't be bothered to quote them all. Congrats on the 1000 :cheers:
 
You know what my Gears are being seriously Ground hard by?

Pretty much all of the above is slow chat, it's not answering the question which is (seeing as a reminder seems relevant) WHAT GRINDS YOUR GEARS?

One line posts with no relevence to the thread subject are getting too much now, I know some of you are just set on upping your post count, so those who are please go and do it somewhere else (like the GT5 section) this thread is for Gear Grinding, not constant, irrelevant, pointless slow chat!

I'm sorry I have to go on about it, but unless it changes I believe I can lock the thread, which I would rather do than see it keep deminishing into a chat thread.

Am I over-reacting? I don't know, but I have asked repeated times and nothing changes, so please sort it out.

Thank you.
 
Sorry mike. :guilty:
What annoys me is that Im gonna make a bank account tommorow (Take note of the next bit CARCRASH and ryanb98) but it takes around 1-2 weeks for them to make a debit card. :grumpy: All they need to do is put my name on it...
 
You know what my Gears are being seriously Ground hard by?

Pretty much all of the above is slow chat, it's not answering the question which is (seeing as a reminder seems relevant) WHAT GRINDS YOUR GEARS?

One line posts with no relevence to the thread subject are getting too much now, I know some of you are just set on upping your post count, so those who are please go and do it somewhere else (like the GT5 section) this thread is for Gear Grinding, not constant, irrelevant, pointless slow chat!

I'm sorry I have to go on about it, but unless it changes I believe I can lock the thread, which I would rather do than see it keep deminishing into a chat thread.

Am I over-reacting? I don't know, but I have asked repeated times and nothing changes, so please sort it out.

Thank you.

Is that directed at me as well? Because I have actually given well thought out responses (have tried to). If I haven't then I apologize.
 
Didn't there used to be a chat thread, but it got too much for the server so Jordan closed it.. There should be a new one..
 
You know what my Gears are being seriously Ground hard by?

Pretty much all of the above is slow chat, it's not answering the question which is (seeing as a reminder seems relevant) WHAT GRINDS YOUR GEARS?

It's because of this that this thread has gone from an interesting read with the chance to help out a fellow online buddy to some place where constant chat about minor issues becomes the norm.

Half of the posts over the last few weeks have been drivel and in no way related to the anger venting posts of the early days of this thread.

TB said if this behaviour continues that thread will see a lock and I've come to the point myself of expecting that to happen if nothing is improved regarding the posting style and contents.

It's not for me to go acting like I have the right to say what should and should go here, neither is it for Mike who started this thread, but a fair few of us are being wound up by this. It's been mentioned before several times by many members.

Bottom line is, let's not wait for TB's (or any other mod, for that matter) next post here to be the one that explains why it was locked.


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The so called "improved racing sounds" of GT5 with 2.02 grinds my gears. How is it improved when I drive my viper all I hear is wind and not the engine. The Viper is damn loud, it's not electric. It had 10 cylinders down there, it makes noise!
 
Jai
Didn't there used to be a chat thread, but it got too much for the server so Jordan closed it.. There should be a new one..

There is one in the Infield, sort of. (The Ramblings thread.)
 
You know what my Gears are being seriously Ground hard by?

Pretty much all of the above is slow chat, it's not answering the question which is (seeing as a reminder seems relevant) WHAT GRINDS YOUR GEARS?

One line posts with no relevence to the thread subject are getting too much now, I know some of you are just set on upping your post count, so those who are please go and do it somewhere else (like the GT5 section) this thread is for Gear Grinding, not constant, irrelevant, pointless slow chat!

I'm sorry I have to go on about it, but unless it changes I believe I can lock the thread, which I would rather do than see it keep deminishing into a chat thread.

Am I over-reacting? I don't know, but I have asked repeated times and nothing changes, so please sort it out.

Thank you.

I'm just going to assume that this is not directed at me, because my rants are usually almost pages long...

Speaking of rant...

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The last two days have been real good for me, I have finally freed myself from SRG (read my last rant if you have no clue who that is) and it seems to have had a real impact, I no longer have the feeling of needing to help somebody constantly to compensate for any guilt feelings.

But I still feel strange about it...

We have been really good friends for a really long time, and just dropping her off silently that way feels extremely awkward. Then again I always think about how she called me her best friend and such, while still treating me like somebody she does not care about in real life... I have the feeling she thinks I'm not giving enough, but I was giving so much it almost killed all of my spare time and on more than one occasion a modest "thank you" was all I got back for it. Keep in mind that was usually via text or other virtual forms of contact. I never got any "real" reactions from her. This just killed it for me.

That is probably why I don't care about her anymore. It's like there's two SRGs, the virtual SRG and the real SRG. The real SRG has always been acting strange towards me, and now that the virtual SRG has started acting like this too, it's just over.

So my question is, is the Internet taking over personalities now?

My point is Facebook. Sticking with SRG, she's kind of an addict. She's not exactly posting what she's doing every single second, but I have the feeling she does not know when something is being posted openly visible and when something's private. This is especially annoying when there's stuff you really never wanted to know about spammed all over your Facebook front page. It's not only her, lots of girls from my class are doing the same, and mostly my only reaction is a good ole' facepalm. There's just so much 🤬 being posted, I doubt it's worth the server capacity. Every single knickknack is being posted, ranging from posting three times about how they are coloring their hair at the moment to really, really disgusting public conversations about things that should be private. As an example, they aren't even afraid of bullying someone who is on Facebook via public statuses and wall posts.

This 🤬 sucks.

People like these should be thrown off of Facebook for good, or just get rid of this 🤬. My life was good without social networks, and the few relationships I've established utilizing Facebook and the likes can be maintained by plain text messages too.

Well, I guess that's enough Facebook bashing for today. Of course Facebook has its advantages, too, but as this is a rant I'm going to keep it partial. :D

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Ah yes, steam vent. Thanks for reading / ignoring this post and sorry in advance if anyone should be offended.

See you around,

theRealMeyer
 
Is that directed at me as well? Because I have actually given well thought out responses (have tried to). If I haven't then I apologize.

My point wasn't directed at anyone personally, It's a collection of people that make the conversation, I think Shem explains my point better, I 100% agree with the below:


It's because of this that this thread has gone from an interesting read with the chance to help out a fellow online buddy to some place where constant chat about minor issues becomes the norm.

Half of the posts over the last few weeks have been drivel and in no way related to the anger venting posts of the early days of this thread.

TB said if this behaviour continues that thread will see a lock and I've come to the point myself of expecting that to happen if nothing is improved regarding the posting style and contents.

It's not for me to go acting like I have the right to say what should and should go here, neither is it for Mike who started this thread, but a fair few of us are being wound up by this. It's been mentioned before several times by many members.

Bottom line is, let's not wait for TB's (or any other mod, for that matter) next post here to be the one that explains why it was locked.

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I realise I have perhaps sounded slightly Tyranical about this, I do acknowledge that I am not the Gear Grinding overlord, but I did create this thread and my hopes for it are discribed well by Shem.

& theRealMeyer, Now that's a Rant! 👍
 
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